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In a bid to build an internal team of supercoders, Infosys wants programmers who can tackle any software-related challenge and for this, it is going to tap talent from Silicon Valley for the initiative known as Expert Track.
Top top Infosys executives Abdul Razack and Navin Budhiraja had told ET that the company was planning to open up the Expert Track programme for gifted coders from innovation hotbeds such as the Silicon Valley and other parts of the world.
"As of now (Expert Track) looks only in India, but we are going to open it up for the Valley as well. We have set this up to hire people from everywhere, not just India -but from across the world. The assessment process is available to anybody , it's essentially an online assessment process," said Budhiraja, senior vice-president and head of architecture and technology at Infosys.
The technology is changing with new innovations and Infosys wants to move with the pace. IT companies are, therefore, fighting it out to remain at the top and offer services in automation, robotics, etc.
Infosys is also keeping its option of tapping talent from startups.
Meanwhile, programmes like Expert Track are rewarding too.
"Career-wise if you grow, you would become something like a Fellow, yes. But obviously that doesn't mean that everybody here in the programme is a Fellow. The key idea is that you're an individual contributor, your main gift is to be a very very good programmer," said Budhiraja.